Washboiler attachment



J. T. WOOD.

WASHBOILER ATTACHMENT, APPJHCATION FILED APR.28. I921.

1 42 3523 Patented July 25, 1922.

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false-bottom member of my said rectangular WASHBOILER ATTACHMENT,

- Application filed April 28,

To all wiwm it may concern:

Be it known that 1, JOHN T. W000, a citizen of the United States, residin at East St. Louis, in the county of St. Clair, in the State of Illinois, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Washboiler Attachments, of which the following is a specification containing a full, clear, and exact description, reference being bad to the accompanying drawings, forming a part hereof.

My invention consists in the novel construction and combination of parts hereinafter particularly described and distinctly claimed.

The object of my invention is to provide a cheap and simple automatic washer having perforated vertical tubes which can be placed in a common wash-boiler, and form a false bottom therein, upon which the clothes will be supported and thoroughly washed by the steam and hot water that is circulated through them after being dis: charged through the holes in said vertical tubes.

In the drawings,

Fig. 1 is a top plan-view of my improved washer, and r Fig. 2 is-a vertical section of the same in operating position in a wash-boiler.

The numeral 1 designates the portableinvention, which is somewhat rectangular and smaller than the bottom 2 of the wash-boiler 3, and is provided with a straight downwardly extending marginal'ilange 4: which rests upon the said boiler bottom 2 and removably supports the horizontal body 1 about one inch above the fixed bottom 2. y

The adjacent ends of said downwardly extending flanges 4 are cut away so as to rovide a V-shaped water-inlet opening 5 between said ends at each corner of the bottom-member, for permitting the water to enter thereatbeneath said false-bottom member 1, said flanges bein slightly inclined (or spread) outwar ly from said member 1 to the lower ed es of said flanges.

fiising from the said rectangular bottommember 1 are a series of vertical tubes 6 having numerous perforations 7 at various points in their length,

The upper ends of said tubes 6 are closed by a suitable top-plate 8, but their lower Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Judy 25, race,

1921. Seriai Ito. eeaoea ends are open and in free communication with the steam-space 9 beneath said rectangular bottom-member 1.

The lower ends of said'tubes 6 are firmly secured by means of solder or other fasten ing means to the said body-member 1, and they are each strongly braced by means of a heavy body of cast-iron or other metal 10 which surrounds their lower portions, and is soldered or otherwise fastened thereto, and also to the underlying rectangular body-member 1.

Said heavy bracing-bodies 10 also act as weights, to hold the rectangular body-member down, during operation of the device, and prevent the steam that is generated beneath said rectan lar body-member from raising same too hlgh above the wash-boiler bottom 2. v

In operation, the clothes to be washed are placed in the wash-boiler 3, above the said rectangular body-member 1, and surrounding'the said vertical tubes 6, and boiled with sea until properly cleansed.

he steam beneath said body-member 1 will rapidly force boiling-water and steam up through said tubes 6, and discharge the same into and through the clothes, and

thence the water will return to the steamspace 9 through said lf-shaped openings between the ends of said flanges 4 of said rectangular bottom-member, and so on, as long as the water boils, and until the cleaned clothes are removed from the boiler,

I claim A wash-boiler attachment, composed. of a rectangular false-bottom member having a series of vertical perforated tubes rising from its upper surface, and provided with strai ht downwardly-extending. outwardlyfiared marginal flan es between the adjacent ends of which at eac corner of said member are i -shaped water-inlet openings; and combined weights and braces surrounding the lower portions of said tubes and securely fastened to the said rectangular false-bottom member,

In testimony whereof, it have signed my name to this specification in presence of two subscribing witnesses.

. JOHN TQ WOGD.

Witnesses:

Jenn G. Hzononr,

any L. HIGDON,

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